Farmstead with Mounted Riders, Inscribed Irasburg, Vermont — Farmer Taylor

A farmstead seen from its approach road: a pale two-storey house stands beside timber barns, with several people and two mounted riders gathered in the yard. A split-rail fence borders the stony lane. Behind the buildings, a partly cleared hillside, scattered with rocks and stumps, rises to a wooded ridge.

The two arched-top photographs are mounted side by side on a rounded-corner buff card. The reverse carries the series heading “VERMONT & CANADIAN SCENERY.” and identifies the photographer and publisher as Farmer Taylor, “Portrait and Landscape Photographer,” of Main Street, Coaticook, P. Q. The printed view-number space is unfilled; there is no printed title for this particular view.

A clearly legible pencil inscription reads “Taken in 1879.” A lighter note at the upper right reads “IRASBURG, VT,” identifying the scene as Irasburg, Vermont. Both the date and location are recorded here on the authority of these inscriptions, whose authorship and age are unknown. The particular property and the people remain unidentified.

A dark stain at the lower edge of the right-hand photograph extends onto the mount, with scattered brown spotting elsewhere on the card. Otherwise sound, retaining clear detail in the buildings, fences and figures.